Excerpt from The Poultry Keeper, Vol. 40: A Journal for Every One Interested in Making Poultry Pay, Devoted Particularly to Practical Poultry Keeping; April, 1923 This question is usually answered in a way which is very misleading. It is a fact that one will require more land than is usually given as an es timate. It is a mistake to crowd the fowls and we recommend that one buy more land than he thinks he will need. We believe that 100 hens is enough for one acre of land. We know this is much less to the acre than is usually estimated but we be lieve that in the end it will give bet ter results. We have seen 200 hens kept on an acre with good results but we believe that a smaller number will be safer. We would divide the acre into equal plots and rotate the chickens from one to the other. This would keep the ground in good con dition. It means more work to use more ground but it also means bet ter health for the flock. We would say that ten acres for layers and breeding stock would be sufficient land. We recommend an orchard for growing stock. Five acres should easily grow all the stock one would need to keep up the flock. One must figure in a garden and other extras so that perhaps fifteen acres would be about as small a place as one would want to try and get along with and twenty acres would be bet ter. The question which now arises is whether it would be better to do general farming or specialize. Fruit and poultry go together very well but general farming requires too much capital and at present does not pay especially well. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.